Jagdeo joins board of Green Growth Institute

Workers clearing the East Coast Demerara embankment just before Mahaica on Friday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has joined the Board of Directors of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) which aims to pioneer green growth by integrating job creation with environmental sustainability in a manner similar to Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).

According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release, Jagdeo attended a meeting of the Board in Seoul, Korea last Sunday and later joined Korean President Lee Myung-bak to open the Organisation for Economic Development’s Green Growth Summit.

In an address after the meeting, Jagdeo said, “GGGI provides a